Best History Movies
Historical films let you watch the past argue with itself - wars, trials, revolutions and the people caught inside them. Ranked here by audience rating: sweeping period epics, tense docudramas and intimate true stories. See where each streams and mark off the eras you've covered.
Dumb Money
2023
Invasion
2014
Mank
2020
Good News
2025
Jimmy's Hall
2014
The Bloody Hundredth
2024
Mr. Jones
2019
1776
1972
Operation Finale
2018
Siberiade
1979
Sharpe's Sword
1995
The Colors of Fire
2022
Bigger
2018
Visions of Light
1992
The Great Battle
2018
Jakob the Liar
1999
Born Free
1966
Worth
2021
Coup 53
2019
Giovanni Falcone
1993
Orphans of the Storm
1921
All the Way
2016
Miss Violet
2024
Warsaw 44
2014
Brooklyn Bridge
1981
Days of Glory
2006
War and Peace
1956
The Endurance
2000
Romero
1989
The Column
1968
Leave No Traces
2021
The Royal Tailor
2014
Britannic
2000
Spitfire
2018
Battle of Jangsari
2019
Playing for Time
1980
Reel Injun
2010
Las Poquianchis
1976
Zen
2009
Copenhagen
2002
Cola Wars
2019
Twin Sisters
2002
Pollock
2000